Hi all, ive got a slight concern, I have just built my new computer from scratch which is a very top spec for me (click on my computer to the left under my name to see spec). It has an original windows xp media centre 2005 and sometimes what happens is when i turn it on and it goes to the windows xp loading screen (black screen part with the loading bar moving), it can take a while to load and other days it can be quick? with a spec like this though - i imagine it to be quick all the time. Sometimes the loading bar freezes then after a few mins its loading again. It doesnt really bother me but any advice would help, thanks
I don't think it's anything too serious. Windows XP is quite bloated anyway, so I wouldn't expect rocket speed Try defragmenting your hard drive, that will help overall performance. Use CCLeaner to clean up the Windows registry.
Thanks for the advice do appreciate it, didnt think about defragmentation will do that though - could you explain what exactly it does though? Have now installed ccleaner - great program - thanks for recommending
I've snatched this text from Wikipedia Fragmentation occurs when the operating system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit, but instead puts parts of it in gaps between other files (usually those gaps exist because they formerly held a file that the operating system has subsequently deleted or because the operating system allocated excess space for the file in the first place). As advances in technology bring us larger disk drives, the performance loss due to fragmentation squares with each doubling of the size of the drive. Larger files and greater numbers of files also contribute to fragmentation and consequent performance loss. Defragmentation restores a drive to its original speed. A defragmentation program must move files around within the free space available in order to undo fragmentation. This is a memory intensive operation and cannot be performed on a file system with no free space. The reorganization involved in defragmentation does not change logical location of the files (defined as their location within the directory structure).
